Internal-combustion engine.



offu and the combustion of t e fuel becomes iin- UNIT ED" amassing OFFICE. Y' I JAMES COURTHOPE PEACHE, OF RUGBY, ENGLAN D, ASSIGNOR T0 WILLANS ROBINSON,

LIMITED, OF RUGBY. ENGLAND.

INTERNAL-COMB USTION ENGINE.

, Application filed Tannery 2.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, JAMES Governors PEACHE, engineer, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Victoria 'or s. Rugby, in the county of Warwick, England, have invented new and. useful Improvements in Internal-Combustion Engines, of which the following is a specification. In engines working under the Diesel system it is customerto introduce the fuel by, means of air un er compression supplied from storage. cylinders.

In ractice it is found that as the amount elis cut down to suit a decrease of load, the consumption of com ressed air increases perfect owin to the cooling effect of the air introducing t 1e fuel.

v This invention has for its object. to dispense with the compressed air reservoirs now re- 1 quired for injecting the fuel, to use a nnni- 1 mum-0f compressed air whether injecting 5 Specification of Letters Patent.

2 ing cylinde gfitted to reduceleakage.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908. 1900. Serial No. 409,069.

i and fuel at h. The vacuum caused b v the I movement of the lunger a in one direction sucks a suppl .of uel and air into the chargr l) a non return valve may be The plunger is then driven back, compressing the air (and thereby raising its temperature) until the pressure thus generated is suilicient to open the valve and allow the fuel to be driven out. The plunger (1 is caused to reciprocate by the .lever j operated by the engine in any ordina l'y 1118111161.

he apparatus described above is fixed in the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, and the cycle is timed so as first to draw in fuel and air, and compress theair, and then eject the air and fuel into the working cylinder as the main piston begins to make its working stroke.

The spring e which holds the valve in place can be tightened up to any desired extent.- If this device is applied to a Diesel engine much or little fuel, and to su ply this com- 1 which works under a compression of say 500 pressed air in a highly heate state so that 1 lbs. per square inch, the spring would be set there shall beno coolin efiect but on the so that the valve shall not lift until say a other hand a considerab e heating and vappressure of 700 lbs. per square inch is proorizing effect on the incoming fuel. Further duced in the charging cylinder. The fuel by a simple external adjustment, to make it 2 possible to re ulatethe pressure of the in ecition air and t e degree of atomizing to which the fuel is to. be subject. For these it oses an apparatus such as is shown in t e raw- 1 through the center of the plunger a and is i cylinder 6 and round the stem d of the v ve.

5a 1 Ai -i admitted at gto the passage 1 1 close the valve, a longitudinal passage in the 110 anchored by a spring connection e, which 1 holds the valve to its seat with any dired degree of pressure. The plunger 0: is made an airtight working fitboth in the chewing It is also made of such a shape as to it closely to the valve head at the end of its stroke- A hole or passage f for the introduction of fuel and air 18 provided in the charging cyl- I inder, and the. stroke of the plunger is ad- "usted so that at the end it uncovers this then is highly heated by this compression and finally atomized by being driven through the valve. The extent of the heating and the fineness of the atomizing can be readily regulated while the engine is at work by adjusting the tension of the springholding the valve to its seat. I i What I claim is y l. The combination of a cylinder, a valve seat at the end of the cylinder of the sam diameter as it, a valve resting on the seat and closing the end of the cylinder, a spring tending to close the valve, :1 plunger working in the cylinder, means for reciprocating the plunger up to and away from the valve, and means for supplying fuel and air to the cylinder. I

2. The combinatiom of a cylinder, a plun ger working in the c linder, avalve closing spring acting on the stem and tending to close the valve, and means for supplying fuel and air to the cylinder.

3. The combination of a cylinder, a plun ger working in the e linder, a valve closing the end of the cylinr er, a spring tending to the passage.

cylinder, and all and fuelducts opening into 3 close the valve, a longitudin al passage'in the cylinder, and air and fuel ducts opening into 4. The combination of a'cylinder, a plnnthe passage.

ger working in the cvhnder, a valve closmg JAMES COURTHOPE PEACHE. the end of the cylinder, a stem carrying the 1 Witnesses: a valve and passing through the plunger, 9.; H. D. JAMESON, I

spring acting on the stem and tending to! F. L. RAND. 

